RARE Conservation

RARE Conservation

"When Rare was established in 1973, it was an acronym for Rare Animal Relief Effort. While on an extended car trip through Central America, Capt. David Hill, an avid US birdwatcher and pilot for Flying Tigers, conceived of a conservation organization that would protect that region’s vulnerable and unique fauna. Initially, he wanted to ally with the National Audubon Society, which then lacked its current international reach. Audubon offered free office space at its New York headquarters, but suggested that Hill incorporate Rare as an independent organization. Rare Inc. had its first board meeting on Nov. 9, 1973.

"Its first big campaign came the following year, when Rare Inc. allied with Friends of the Earth and the Animal Welfare Institute to launch the “Save the Whales” campaign, using ads, buttons, and demonstrations. Rare Inc. then led a worldwide initiative to protect the manatee, which helped result in 1978’s passage of the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act, declaring the entire state a manatee refuge.

"Rare Inc.formed an alliance with the World Wildlife Fund in the early to mid ’80s and focused on outreach and education. In 1986, the organization split from WWF to become the Rare Center for Tropical Bird Conservation, using the Resplendent Quetzal as its logo and focusing more narrowly on the bird conservation in Central America and the Caribbean."


 * Brett Jenks - President and CEO

Trustees
Accessed November 2009:


 * Wendy J. Paulson - CHAIRMAN
 * Edith McBean - VICE CHAIR
 * Joseph H. Ellis - Former Partner/Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs & Co. - SECRETARY
 * Edward Soule - Georgetown University - TREASURER
 * Anita Bekenstein
 * Melissa Shackleton Dann
 * Mark DiMassimo - CEO and Chief Creative Officer, DiMassimo Goldstein
 * Hannelore Grantham - Executive Director, Grantham Foundation for Protection of the Environment
 * Dan Heath - co-author of Switch
 * Barbara Hernandez - President and Co-founder, Niños y Crías
 * Nancy Mackinnon
 * Duncan M. McFarland - The Bromley Charitable Trust
 * Stephanie Meeks - President and CEO, Counterpart International
 * Vadim Nikitine - President, Commercial Centers Management
 * Angus Parker - Conservation Consultant
 * Roger F. Pasquier - Director of Foundations, the National Audubon Society
 * Will H. Reynolds - Partner, New Profit, Inc.
 * Alexandra Rome - Former Director, Commonweal Sustainable Futures Project
 * Anne Martin Simonds - Russell Reynolds Associates
 * Ruth Yeoh - YTL Corporation Bhd

HONORARY TRUSTEES
 * Kenneth Berlin - Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
 * David Hill - Federal Express Corporation
 * Robert S. Ridgely - American Bird Conservancy

Contact

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